SC hears review petitions today

ISLAMABAD (APP) - A larger bench constituted by Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry Monday (today) will hear a set of pleas against its decision of February 25 in which both PML-N leaders Nawaz Sharif and Shahbaz Sharif were disqualified from holding any public office. A five-member bench consisting of Justice Tassaduq Hussain Jillani, Justice Nasir-ul-Mulk, Justice Mohammad Moosa K Leghari, Justice Sheikh Hakim Ali and Justice Sabihuddin Ahmed will hear the review petitions of Federation of Pakistan, Speaker Punjab Assembly, the proposer and seconder of the Sharif brothers in by-election, Mehr Zafar Iqbal and Shakeel Baig and others. The bench will also hear a separate application moved by the Federal government seeking suspension of the disqualification order of the two brothers till the time it is not decided.